Okay I’m the worst at posting recently and this isn’t even book related but please read through because it’s VERY IMPORTANT.

Basically, we’re trying to save a great tv show that has amazing LGBT representation! Among other things. XD

About Eyewitness: Eyewitness is a crime drama that airs Sunday nights on USA Network. It follows the story of two teenage boys (among others) Lukas and Phillip (one openly gay, one painfully closeted and confused) who witness a triple homicide that they then keep secret from the police on account of Lukas not wanting anyone to know he was out with Philip. It has great LGBT representation, not to mention an amazing cast, great writing, and an interesting plot with lots of complex characters!

A few reasons why you should watch it:

– Philkas: Let’s be real, we’re book bloggers, we’re book nerds and we love the ships, right? So Philkas is an amazing ship for many reasons. But, you know, most importantly they’re lovable, they have issues, make stupid choices but they’re REAL, you know? And they’ll break your heart and put you back together again in like every episode, many times.

– All the amazing characters. To find other characters that are great you need look no further than Helen and Gabe who have taken Philip in because his mom is a drug addict. Again, they’re both flawed (Helen’s not good with trust and clearly has some bad things in her past) but who doesn’t like flawed characters??? And yeah, a lot of the characters are super flawed and you know bad and things, but it’s good, just trust me, I’ve never steered you wrong before!

I know the book blogging world is always about how we NEED diverse books and we DO but we also need diverse tv shows and Eyewitness is such a great show and they handle their gay characters SO WELL. And it’s going to get canceled and it won’t get a second season if we can’t increase the views which is just a shame. One of tv’s best and only LGBT shows getting canceled even though it’s an amazing show both including and not even talking about the LGBT representation because no one will watch it!?!?!?!

For the last few weeks the fandom has been working overtime on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook, trying to help increase views and make the network aware of how many people love the show and how important it is, and we increased views last week which was amazing but not enough sadly! So we need to reach out even further and do all we can this week when the new episode airs on Sunday night at 10pm!

If you need more convincing the actor that plays one of the main roles (Lukas, a very confused and hurting gay teenager) wrote this today:

So please if can signal boost this, watch the past episodes on USA Network if you want and just give it a chance! Even if you don’t actually watch it if you could just turn your tv to USA and help with views and give it a chance that would be awesome. Anything would help if you’d just give the show a chance, please! I don’t know if any book bloggers out there are watching the show but I KNOW if we can get a bunch too it could really help!

If you can tweet @USA_Network and include hashtags #eyewitness and #wewanteyewitnessseason2 that would be beyond amazing, but most importantly just give the show a chance, see if you like it, it’s amazing!

If you want to know more I’m going to link to a few posts on a friend’s Tumblr, she’s the best at these things and here are some of her posts about the show. How to save Eyewitness here , here and here.